The Udacity Self-Driving Car team celebrated a company award with a team outing to the NASCAR race at Sonoma Raceway yesterday.
It was our first NASCAR race and it was an experience.
Kevin Harvick won, but I couldn’t help but thinking of a future when autonomous cars can outrace humans. We’re not there yet, but it’s coming.
Here’s the NIO EP9, arguably the world’s fastest autonomous race car:
Here’s the Formula E autonomous series, Roborace:
And here’s a montage of the Self-Racing Cars homebrew event, with a cameo from my now-colleague, Anthony Navarro:
David Silver 